DOING GOOD

A restaurant owner in Albuquerque, N.M., discovered this week that one good deed deserves another. Back in the late ’90s, a teenage customer at Claus Hjortkjaer’s restaurant Le Café Miche took a date for a Valentine’s dinner but found himself $40 short when the check came. Hjortkjaer discreetly took care of it and told the teen to repay him one day. That day came this week, when the patron wandered into the restaurant and handed his old benefactor a $100 bill for the check, plus interest. “Sometimes it pays off to be a nice guy,” said Hjortkjaer.